Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1887-11-20
COUNTESS NARONA.
BY wILKIE L
THE THIRD PART.
CONTINUED. ]
CHAPTER NV.

The outside OF the building, with it,
hne Palladian front locking on the canal,
was wisely left unaltered. Inside, a. a
matter Of necessity, the rooms were almost
rebuilt-ss far at least as the size and ar.
rangement Of them were concerned. The
vast saloons were partitioned of into
apartments containing three or fOar
rOoms each. The broad corridors in the
upper regions afforded spare enough
for row of little bed chambers, devoted to
servants and TO travellers Of limited means.
Nothing was spared but the solid floors
and the finely carver ceilings. These last,
excellent preservation rs to workmanship,
merely required cleaning and ~regilding
here and there to add greatly to the beauty
and Importance of the best rooms in the
hotel. The only exception TO the complete
reorganization OF the interior was at one
extremity Of the edifice on the first and
second floors. Here there happened in
each case to be rooms ofSuch comparatively
moderate size, and so attractiyely decorated
tina the architect suggested leaving them
as they were. 1t was afJerward discovered
that these were no other than the apart
ments respectively occupied by Lord Mont
barry ION the first floor and by Baron
Riyar Ton the secOndl. The room in which
MOutbarry had died was still fitted up as q
bed room, and was now distinguished rs
number fourteen. The room above it, in
which the baron slept, took its place on
the hotel register as number thirty-eight.
With the ornaments on the wall and cell
I iDgs cleaned and frightened up, aud with
the heavy old fashioned h.ds, chairs, and
tables replaced by bright, pretty and
luxurious mOdeTn furniture, these TWO
promised to be at once the most attractive
and most comfortable bed chambers IN the
hotel. As for the once desOlate and dis
used ground floor of the building, It was
now transformed, by means o, splendid
dining rooms, reception rooms, billiard
rooms aud smoking rOOms, into q palace by
itself. Even the dungeon like walls be-
meath, now lighted and ventilated on the
most approved plan, had been turned as it
by magic into kitchens, servants offices,
ice rooms and wine cellars, Passing from
the lapse of the summer months at Venice
to the lapse Of the summer months IN Ire
land it Is next to he recorded that Mrs.
ROLAND obtained the situation Otattendant
on the invalid, Mrs. CIrhury, and thst the
fair Miss HaldaUe, like a female Cesar,
came, saw and conquered on her first days
visit to the new Lord M~OuthaTry's house.
The ladies were rs loud in her praises as
Arthur Baryille himself. Lord MOntbarry
declared that she was the only perfectly
pretty woman be had ever seen who was
really unconscious Of her own attractions
The old nurse said she looked - II she had
lust stepped out o. a picture, and wanted
nothing but a gilt frame round her to make
her complete. Miss fIdidaUe, on her side,
returned from her hrst visit 10 the Mont
barrys, charmed with her new aCqua!nt-
ances Later ON The same day Arthur
called with an Offering OF iruit and flowers
for MIS-. CarbuTy, aud with instructions %
ask If she was we'll enough to receive Lort
and Lady MOntbarry and Miss Lockwood
on the morrow. la u weeks time the two
households were on the lriendiieSt terms.
Mrs. Carbury, confined 20 the sofa by Il
spinal mllady, had been hitherto Deepen
dent on her niece tor one of the few
pleasures she could euJoy-the pleasure OF
having the best new novels read To her rs
they came cut Discovering this ATthur
volunteered u relieve Miss Haldane at IN.
teryals in the office OF reader. lie was
clever at mechanical coutriyauce OF all
sorts. and he introduced improvements ia
n T.-Lr,-,Hr ,,,r.f nn.N IN fka rnanToa AT
converting her from the bed chamber To
the drawing room, which alleviated the
door laiy's Sutlrring9 ana frightened her
gloomy life. With these claims on the
gratitude o ftbe aunt, aided by the personal
advantages which be unqueStiOably pos
sessed, Arthur advanced rapidly IN the
favor of the charming niece, She was, It
Z ia needless to say, perfectly well aware
\ that he was IN love with her, while he was
himself modestly TeticeGt un the subject
SO far as words went. But she was not
Nuually quick in penetrating the nature Of
Z her own feelings toward Arthur. Watch
ing the two young people with keen powers
of observation, necessarily concentrated Oh
them by the complete SeCluSiOn Of her life.
the invalid lady discovered signs Of reused
sepsibility in Miss Haidaue when Arthur
was present which had never YET
shown themselves in her socia
relations with other admirers eager
to paw their addresses 10 her
Having drawn her own conclusions II
private, Mrs. Clrbury took the first favor
able opportunity in Arthur's interests o
putting them to the test.
II don't know what l shall do" shC
said one day. when Arthur goes away
Miss Haldane looked up quickly from
y her work. surely he is not going t,
leave u.s. she exclaimed.
INV dear, he has already stayed ut hi
uncle's house q month longer than he in
tended. His father and mother naturally
expect to see him ~ home again"
Miss Haldane met this difficulty with
suggestion, which could only have proceed
ed from q Judgment already disturbed 10y
the ravages Of the tender passion. why
can't his father and mother 20 and see hin
at Lord M~ontharry's She asked. Isl
Theodore's place II only thirty miles away
and Lady BarYille Is Lord MOntbarry,
sister. They needn't stand on ceremony.
ssThey NAV have other engagements,
Mrs. Carbury remarked.
'sMy dear aunt, We don't know that
Suppose You ask Arthur
Suppose you ask him
Miss Haldane bent her head again owe
her work. Suddenly rs it was done he
amt had seen her iace-and her face be
trayed her.
When Arthur came the next day Mrs
Carbury said = word to him in private
while her niece was in the garden. Tn
Mast new novel lay neglected on the table
Arthur followed Miss Haldahe into tn
Garden. The next d3v ne wrote home, in
closing in his letter a photograph of Mis-
Haldane. Before the end OF the week :,
Theodore and Lady BaTyille arrived a
Lord M~ontbarry's aud formed their Ow,
Judgment ofthe fidelity Of the portrait
Tbey had themselves married early IN life
and strange to say. they did not object Of
nrinciple to the early marriages OF othe
people. The question Of age being thu
disnosed of. the course Of true love had n